My Whirlpool freezer (model WZF79R18DM00) often chimes when the compressor stops running (but seemingly not every time). It's loud, and at night is very annoying. The user manual refers only to an "over temperature alert" and a "door ajar alarm." There is no mention of a jingly tone at the end of a compressor cycle. I'd love to find out how to disable the chimes, or even where the speaker is so I can disconnect it if there's no way to stop the chimes from jingling at the end of the cooling cycle. Thank you so much for your help!
If unit is freezing food then bad temp sensor it is sensins too high of temp if not freezing food bad conpressor or low on freon
There shouldn't be any 'jingly tone' at the end of every compressor cycle. You could be hearing something else making a sound after the compressor stops.
SOURCE: Kenmore Freezer Alarm
The battery was the problem in ours. It was doing the same thing. We went through a whole bunch of stuff trying to figure it out too since we bought it as a floor model only two weeks ago. It's just a 9 volt battery.
SOURCE: Kenmore Upright Freezer Model 253.9239780 Temp alarm, Temp rising slowly
you have a refrigeration issue partner let her go 16 yrs. is good service you can replace it for 3 to 5 hundred the repair will be that IF you can find someone with the r-12. don't go for a top it off and go deal the food you lose is to expensive for that to be economical.
SOURCE: Temp Alarm going off, when freezer seems to be cooling fine.
You need to check the temp in the freezer to make sure it's down to around 10 degrees. The alarm will go off much above that.
SOURCE: Frigidiare upright freezer has just stopped cooling
I was hoping it would be something like a cracked door seal, or a faulty thermostat, etc., but after reading the rest of your info, I've concluded the likely cause is a slow leak in the refridgerant line(s). I've seen many of these fairly new upright freezers with this problem.
Finding the leak is easy for a service tech to find, but the cost of the service tech isn't cheap and unfortunately, the repair cost will probably exceed the cost of a new freezer, but you can try to call a repair tech and see if they can give you a rough estimate over the phone or if they think it's worth fixing, etc.
My advice is to replace it. The cost of food you've lost has probably exceeded the price of a new freezer - and you've had this happen twice now. These days it seems that some appliances are being designed and built as "throw aways" due to the high repair cost.
Wished I had some better news for you, but unless you've got all the specialty tools; (charging gauges, vaccum pump, Freon, etc.) needed to do the repair yourself, along with the technical knowledge, it's likely not worth having the repair service contracted. Best Regards.
SOURCE: Westinghouse fridge freezer alarms keep going off
Try a different web site, where are the solutions on this one????? Great site..... not
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It may very well be the control board being inadvertently affected by noise it's picking up on the wires feeding the rather distant alarm piezo (which on my WZF79R20DW upright freezer happens to be located at the bottom right rear of the chassis behind its cardboard shield). You need to find Technical Service Pointer W10854827 which lightly describes this, and then install W10861568 (which currently supercedes W10846247).
After many months of bewilderment, THIS WORKS! Who would have guessed that these wires, running along side many other wires within the freezer's interior would create such a problem (and I'm an electrical engineer). The tune will be the same tune that you can recreate by manually turning off then on its cooling function via the interior "Temp Setting, Cooling ON/OFF" button for 3 seconds. Yes it does seem to coincide with the end of a compressor cycle, but that is only because any off/on cooling command to the control board begins with the compressor turning off for some minutes (which is a normal programmed-in period to protect its compressor).
You will notice that if you unplugged and plugged back in the freezer, it will produce a different tune. Don't confuse your problem with that and think that you have a mains power problem. As mentioned above, if the tune is the same tune that you hear by manually turning off then on its cooling function, that's the noise on the wires causing the control board to think you want it to turn cooling off then on again. It's a darn good thing that it at least defaults to turning the cooling back on!!!
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